Thread: ATK Software and Wireless Adapter Conflict. Advice?

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It is an Asus M51sn Laptop

So here is the history:

Chassis flexes and would cause the wireless adapter shift in its slot. This usually happened when I grabbed the laptop by the front with one hand (not safe, I know, but hey I gotta move sometimes!). This would cause the adapter to cease functioning until I rebooted, or occasionally the system would lockup altogether. I am assuming it shorted a little when it shifted and caused the driver to have an error or loop of some sort. I discovered that reseating the wireless adapter helped prevent this...for periods of time. Eventually it would wriggle loose again.

I moved the wireless adapter to a different slot in the middle of the system instead of at its edge. It fixed the problem of the adapter cutting out. BUT, it started a whole new problem! Each time I power up the computer (whether from a cold boot, warm boot or hibernation) the adapter does not function until I disable and then re-enable it. Then it works fine.

I had been considering upgrading to Vista 64 (since the drivers are on the disk and the CD-KEY is good for either version) and I figured the upgrade might just fix this problem since I could not nail it down. So I reinstalled Vista in the 64 bit flavor. Everything is hunky dory except I still have to manually enable the adapter...after I installed ATK Hotkey which is the Hotkey program.

I then experimented with uninstalling ATK Hotkey and other ATK related software/drivers. Indeed it is ATK Hotkey causing this conflict. I am guessing it wants my adapter to be in a specific slot.

So...unless there is a fix, my solutions are to A) Not have hotkeys, B) manually enable my wireless adapter each time I turn on the machine, or C) move the adapter back to the favored slot where it cuts in and out all the time forcing me to reboot any time I move my machine.

Anyone got a fix? I would love to have my hotkeys and automatically enabled wireless...but I do not want to move the card back to that other slot where chassis-flex will cause it to have errors.

Anyone here got any ideas?

That's quite a pickle you're in. I'm assuming the ATK software manages your network adapter key on the keyboard?

Originally Posted by WileECyte

That's quite a pickle you're in. I'm assuming the ATK software manages your network adapter key on the keyboard?

Exactly, there is a key and a switch to enable/disable wireleff. And the ATK Hotkey software controls ALL of those buttons (volume, power mgmt, brightness, etc.) except media which is handled by ATK Media. ATK Software has no sort of configuration utility that I can find either.